Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] first [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flying officer Dougan Elliott and his bride Ilene Noyes first walked down the aisle in Wokingham , Berkshire , in wartime Britain of 1940 . |
| 2 | Perceiving more clearly than most the dangers inherent in the darkening American situation , the Barclay brothers first gave up their commission merchant business and then gradually reduced their export trade to North America . |
| 3 | The southern Pennines has the highest calculated load of nitrogen at 25 — 55kg/N/ha , John Lee from Manchester University and Sarah Woodin of the NCC have shown that sphagnum peat bogs first killed off by sulphur dioxide now can not recover because of high levels of nitrogen . |
| 4 | Marshall Islands first to go under ? |
| 5 | As a Russian-trained former officer in the Syrian Army , he had seemed to Donleavy a potentially useful source of background military and political intelligence from the moment Coleman first reported in about him . |
| 6 | Bank clerk Hilary Williams said : ‘ When Mrs Matthews first came in to check if she could change them , I thought she must be joking . |
| 7 | every wheeled motor car first used on or after January I , 1965 ; |
| 8 | US aeroplanes first flew out of Upper Heyford during the war , and in 1970 a permanent base was set up there . |
| 9 | These physicists have systematically probed one particular puzzle of quantum mechanics , a question that Albert Einstein and colleagues Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen first raised back in 1935 . |
| 10 | The appellant Christou first came in with Wright on 15 January 1991 . |
| 11 | Well back in September a few weeks after the quarry men first came out on strike a few of us went up to the picket line , a few of the women . |
| 12 | Well , yes , there is a very cheap little booklet that the Department of Education and Science erm produced not long after the Warnock Report first came out . |
| 13 | I remember once being on the board of a risk capital company when the Business Expansion Scheme first came in . |
| 14 | Third , when facilities management first took off in the US , suppliers were dealing solely with mainframes , and could earn higher margins from significant economies of scale — several mainframes were centralised on one site , and could deal with the information technology requirements of many customers — and so the old bureau service was recreated under another name . |
| 15 | Ellen Solomon and Walter Bodmer first pointed out that the variation in human gene sequences represented a powerful new mapping tool , which laid the basis for studies that led to the human genome project ( in which the entire genome will be mapped , characterised functionally , and eventually sequenced ) . |
| 16 | Oh , I , I can remember when fibreglass curtains first came out we bought some of those terrible things they just went in holes , you know if you touched them too much they just went in holes . |
| 17 | The full power of trance possession first came through to me in Bali while watching the all-night shadow plays by the great dalangs , or puppet-masters , such as Madra . |
| 18 | Reich , born in 1897 , was thirty-two years old when the first part of The Sexual Revolution was published in 1929 ; Freud was already sixty-four years old when the notion of the death instincts first appeared in Beyond the Pleasure Principle in 1920 . |